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December 2017

  1. Matthew Holt’s EOY 2017 letter (charities/issues/gossip)
  2. The Health Care System in 2018: Combat Zones to Watch
  3. What’s Wrong With American Doctors?
  4. Why Consumers No Longer Want Fitness Trackers
  5. Why An Individual Mandate Is Important and What States Can Do About It: Lessons from Massachusetts
  6. An Ode to Evidence-Based Health Policy
  7. What We Know and What We Think
  8. Dr. Nuance versus the Crusaders of the Lost Art
  9. Losing Net Neutrality Could Be Bad For Your Health: Here’s Why
  10. Connecting the Dots: Referrals between Medical Care and Community Resources
  11. Fixing MACRA Should Mean Fixing the APM Pathway
  12. Trump, Stalin and the Price of Replacing Science with Ideological B.S.
  13. Healthier Communities Emerge From Enhanced Data Collection & Collaboration
  14. The Fight to End Alzheimer’s Should Start Earlier Than You Think
  15. Steal From the Poor. Give to the Rich. Rinse. Repeat. The Tax Bill and Health Care Part II..
  16. Applying Psychology to the Challenge of Internal Health Adoption
  17. The Boys From Silicon Valley
  18. See What You Missed At The Tech For Precision Health Summit
  19. OptumCare Can Reach 70 Percent of the US Population
  20. Job Ad: CEO for Soleforce
  21. The Implementer’s Dilemma
  22. Will CVS-Aetna Merger Lead to “Separate But Unequal” Healthcare?
  23. FDA, VCs, Big Ideas, and more at WinterTech
  24. On the Morality of Insurance Premiums
  25. Hey Watson, Can I Sue You?
  26. Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: Lessons from Finance
  27. Premium Support: Coming Soon to a Medicare Plan Near You?
  28. A Clinical Trial By Any Other Name …
  29. What does the Concorde Tell Us About Healthcare Technology in the 21st Century?
  30. Secure your seat for live demos on precision medicine delivery at next week’s Tech Summit
  31. Five Radiology Artificial Intelligence Companies That Somebody Should Build and Invest In
  32. Orbiting ORBITA
  33. Could Artificial Intelligence Destroy Radiology by Litigation Claims?

November 2017

  1. The Evolution of Precision Health
  2. How the Republican Tax Cuts Will Impact the Health Care System
  3. On THCB
  4. Why “Precision Health” May Not Be the Precise Word
  5. Practicing Medicine While Black (Part II)
  6. Who Owns Your FitBit Data? Biometric Data Privacy Problems
  7. The P.A. Problem: Who You See and What You Get
  8. Amazon (Probably) Is About to Lose Out
  9. What investors are saying about the state of digital health
  10. Health Care Needs Its Rosa Parks Moment
  11. Purging Healthcare of Unnatural Acts
  12. The Great American Hypertension Epidemic of 2017
  13. What Baseball Can Teach Doctors
  14. The New Health Care Experience For Consumers
  15. Remembering Uwe
  16. Trump’s New Man at HHS
  17. A Brief History of Price Controls by Annoyed Republican Administrations
  18. Uwe Reinhardt 1937-2017
  19. What Would a Disrupted Health Care Field Look Like?
  20. The Next Tech Wave To Impact Personalized Health
  21. Why Hospitals Are Losing Serious Money And What That Means For Your Future
  22. Practicing Medicine While Black
  23. 12 Seconds of Placebo – An Outsider’s View of ORBITA
  24. The DNA Tool That You Must See
  25. Right to Know: Why the FDA Should Not Be Cut Out of Expanded Access Requests
  26. A Tale of Two Doctors
  27. The Dunning-Kruger Effect, Or the Real Reason Why the Guys Trying to “Fix” Health Care Are Driving You Crazy
  28. Evaluating ACO Performance, 2016 Edition
  29. Reducing Opioid Abuse, A Quick Guide to Internet Resources

October 2017

  1. Why the Potential CVS Acquisition of Aetna is Brilliant, The Law of Unintended Consequences
  2. “Mouths Full of Gold.” Private Practice in Britain’s National Health System
  3. To Achieve Its Goals, Population Health Needs More Specialists
  4. Is Obamacare Dead?
  5. Super Macranomics
  6. My 14 Year Old Cancer Patient May Be Addicted to Opioids. What Do I Do?
  7. ACOs: An Act of Faith, Theory, Hope, or Evidence? What Do the Data Say?
  8. I Refuse to Tell You What to Eat
  9. Price Transparency Tools Are Still Struggling. We Offer Advice
  10. Kenzen’s ECHO Smart Patch Uses Data Improve Health For Users
  11. MedPAC Sinks Deeper Into the MACRA Tar Pit
  12. Do Doctors Deserve Mercy?
  13. Could OpenNotes Transform the Analytics Marketplace?
  14. EHR-Driven Medical Error: The Unknown and the Unknowable
  15. Valuing Value-Based Payment
  16. Trump Thinks He Just Blew Up Obamacare With a Stroke of the Pen. Did He?
  17. Six Assertions on Knowing the Unknowable Future of Healthcare
  18. Moving the Needle to Diversify Health Tech
  19. The Four Things Keeping Hospital CEOs Awake at Night This Year (Hint: Donald Trump Isn’t One of Them)
  20. Sorry. Health Care Reform Can’t Wait for Quality Measures to Be Perfect
  21. Building Better Metrics: Immunizations and Asking the Right Question(s)
  22. I’m 35 Years Old And I’m Realizing My Life May Be About to End. And I’m Panicking, Just a Little.
  23. AARP Caregiver Quality of Life Challenge Winners Announced!
  24. CMS Should Play the Role of Virtual Group Matchmaker
  25. Adapting Behavioral Health Integration to 21st Century Needs
  26. Why Competition In the Politics Industry Is Failing America

September 2017

  1. Lessons From Massachusetts’ Failed Healthcare Cost Experiment
  2. Hi, I’m Rob. I’m a Recovering Doctor
  3. Big Names, Big Ideas at Health 2.0 Fall Conference
  4. Graham-Cassidy is Dead. It’s Back to the Drawing Board. Why Not a Two-Tier System?
  5. How health IT organizations are using security as a competitive advantage
  6. How Wellness Become the Wrong Word
  7. Bringing Behaviorial Health Into Primary Care Settings
  8. Postgaming Sunday’s Graham-Cassidy Action
  9. An Op-Ed Ghostwriter Speaks
  10. Microsoft Set To Demo VR/Mixed reality Physician Education Platform
  11. Interview with Paul Black, CEO, Allscripts
  12. As Ohio Goes, So May Go the Nation: The Patient Access Expansion Act
  13. Maintenance of Certification: Who’s Regulating the Regulators?
  14. How the Government is Failing Health Tech Startups and What to Do About It
  15. Larry Weed’s Legacy and the Next Generation of Clinical Decision Support
  16. Giving a Voice To Healthcare’s ‘Unacceptables’
  17. Bringing Behavioral Health into Primary Care Settings
  18. In Which We Wonder Where the Graham-Cassidy Bill Came From and What It All Means
  19. What Does an Ideal Healthcare System Look Like?
  20. How Consumers Are Shaping the Next Gen Wellbeing Experience
  21. Forget Trump. The 2020 Election Will Be About Single Payer.
  22. Diversity in Health Tech: A Non-Negotiable
  23. The High Cost of Public Reporting
  24. DACA Repeal is Bad for Medical Students, Healthcare, and the Public
  25. Why a Silicon Valley Approach Can’t Work for Health Tech
  26. 7 Ways We’re Screwing Up AI in Healthcare
  27. Which of These 10 New Companies Will Change the Face of Health care?
  28. Why Doctors (And Everybody Else) Should Read Books by Nassim Taleb
  29. Dear Republicans, There Are Second Acts In Washington
  30. Is It time For Physicians to Unionize?
  31. The Decline and Fall of the Doctor-Patient Relationship
  32. The Best Positioned Tech Giant in Healthcare Today? The Answer May Surprise You.
  33. On the Blog
  34. BREAKING NEWS: CTO of HHS, Headspace, Google join Health 2.0 – rate goes up tomorrow!
  35. Our Guide to Pre-Approval Access to Drugs For Both Doctors & Patients
  36. Developers, Data Scientists, Coders – Don’t Miss Out on Dev Day @ Health 2.0!
  37. Hold the Mayo and Save Our Hospital
  38. Until Death (or Recertification) Do Us Part

August 2017

  1. The ACO Fix
  2. Should We Fear an Amazon Monopoly on Healthy Food?
  3. Can Self-Driving Cars Stop Attacks Like Charlottesville and Barcelona?
  4. To Promote Health Care Excellence, Let’s Recognize Approaches That Assure Value
  5. Think Different about Patient Engagement: Aetna, Apple, and a Vision of Digital Health’s Future, Part 2
  6. On the Ethics of Accountable Care Research
  7. How To Prevent Burnout. Frederick This One.
  8. Confessions of a Healthcare Super User
  9. Healthcare As a Moral Universal
  10. Tackle The Next Wave Of Healthcare Consumerism
  11. What Healthcare Can Learn From United Airlines
  12. How Can I Tell If Medical News Is Fake or Not?
  13. A Mystery Mission in LA: Aetna, Apple, and a Vision of Digital Health’s Future, Part 1
  14. The Best Part Of The Health 2.0 Fall Conference Agenda
  15. A New Pothole on the Health Interoperability Superhighway
  16. Sifting Through the Masses to Find Relevant Tech
  17. As Bipartisan Plans for ACA Fixes Emerge, Will Congress Act? Probably Not.
  18. Fax This to Washington: Hospital Consolidation Threatens Our Healthcare System
  19. Dear Humans, Diverse Social Networks are the Answer
  20. Why Smart Pill Bottles and Financial Rewards Don’t Improve Medication Adherence
  21. The Next Visionary Entrepreneurs In Health Tech
  22. A Line in the Sand
  23. Nixon Went to China. Can Trump Go to Single Payer?
  24. The Scorecard: The Great Trump Health Policy Train Wreck
  25. Specialty and Chronic Care: Re-Imagined

July 2017

  1. Single-Payer is the American Way
  2. Doctors Do Know Best. Exhibit A: The Charlie Gard Case.
  3. The Pri(n)ce of Healthcare
  4. Why California Should Try Single Payer. Yes, We Said That.
  5. Repair and Reboot
  6. This EHR Mess We’re In
  7. Digital Health Marketplace: Facilitating Rapid Technology Adoption and Spurring Growth in New York City.
  8. How Much Is That CAT Scan in the Window?
  9. How Insane Could This Get?
  10. ONC Interoperability Meeting Raises More Questions Than Answers
  11. Health + Design, Refactored
  12. Giving Cancer Hell
  13. Winners Announced: RWJF Choosing Care Challenge!
  14. I Finally Understand US Health Policy
  15. Watching Trumpcare Die
  16. SMACK.health — the new way to think about health tech
  17. Is Trumpcare Dead? Was It Ever Really Alive?
  18. Parsely Health Interview & Job Ad!
  19. Regulatory Capture Tests the New Administration
  20. The Most Important Questions About the GOP’s Health Plan Go Beyond Insurance and Deficits
  21. Which Is More Efficient: Employer-Sponsored Insurance or Medicaid?
  22. The Entertainment Presidency: A Primer For Health Care Professionals
  23. Shopping For a Health Insurance Plan Again. Seriously?
  24. Join Our Free Webinar About Advancements and Challenges in Patient Matching
  25. The BCRA Is An Improvement Over Obamacare. Here’s Why..
  26. Should Doctors and Nurses Be Patient Activists?
  27. Repeal and Replace. Repeal and Replace. Repeal …
  28. The Decline and Fall of Informed Consent
  29. Beyond “Repeal and Replace”
  30. Believe Them the First Time
  31. Announcing Dr. Don Rucker as a Featured Speaker for the Fall Conference!
  32. Unreformed: Taming the Charge Monster

June 2017

  1. Fall Conference Demo Submission Deadline EXTENDED to 7/7/17
  2. Time to Start Over!
  3. Did “Medicus economicus” Kill Medicare Part B Reform?
  4. A Real (Living, Breathing) Health Care Reform Plan: Drop MACRA
  5. Death and Medicaid
  6. If Your Premiums Go Down but Coverage Gets Worse, Does Your Healthcare Matter?
  7. Whether or Not Republicans Are Able to Replace Obamacare …
  8. Healthcare’s Fake News Epidemic
  9. Will Senate Republicans Get 50 Votes to Repeal the ACA?
  10. A Primer For Conservatives: Health Insurance is not Really Insurance
  11. Examining How Senate Republicans Frame Their Health Care Bill
  12. Senate Releases Obamacare Replacement Bill (Download)
  13. Can Amazon Crack the Rx Code?
  14. Trump’s Brain: What’s Going On?
  15. Overdiagnosing Trump
  16. With Amazon Purchase, it’s Time For Whole Foods to Bring Affordability Instead of Gentrification
  17. Don’t Underestimate Patients
  18. Don’t Let Weak Research Influence Policies with Life and Death Consequences
  19. Medical Associations Non-Pulsed by Trump’s Withdrawal From the Paris Accord
  20. Being Human
  21. Government Regulation, Lawyers and the Opioid Crisis
  22. A Not Very Good Proposal to Reduce Emergency Room Visits
  23. Would ACOs Work if They Were Turned into HMOs?
  24. How Amazon Can Position Itself as the Pharmacy of the Future
  25. HarvardX: Improving Global Health, Focusing on Quality & Safety
  26. The Solution Never Works If You Haven’t Identified the Problem
  27. Is the Direct Primary Care Model Dead?
  28. Marching For Skepticism
  29. Is eClinicalWorks the Next Volkswagen?
  30. Parsing eCW’s $155 Million Payment to the Government
  31. Doctors Should Also Be Fighting “Fake News”

May 2017

  1. Winning the Doctor Lottery
  2. MD vs. DNP: Why 20,000 Hours of Training and Experience Matters
  3. Information Blocking Under Attack: The Challenges Facing EHR Developers and Vendors
  4. How CMS Undermines ACOs and What to do About It
  5. What’s Behind the Spike in Food Allergies?
  6. Open Season on Health Privacy in Washington DC
  7. The Delta of Discomfort and the Agony of Despair
  8. Compete for 2017’s Startup Spotlight at Health 2.0’s Traction Competition!
  9. On Teaching Hospitals and Conflict of Interest and Other Politically Charged Topics
  10. Only Alternative Facts Can Support the Protecting Access to Care Act
  11. House v. Price and the CSR Payments Paradox
  12. ACO Turnover is High. Doctors Have Few Patients, and Those Patients are Unusually Healthy
  13. Suppose It’s an Obligation and Not a Right?
  14. Maintenance of Conflict of Interest?
  15. GEHA’s Seven-Year “Glitch”
  16. Is Health Privacy a Human Right?
  17. 10 Reasons Why You MUST Attend HxR 2017!
  18. Why Health Reform is a Risky Business for Politicians: Even Winning Can Cost You at the Polls!
  19. Failure to Translate: Why Have Evidence-Based EHR Interventions Not Generalized?
  20. Bob Wachter’s 2017 Penn Med Commencement Address “Go to Radiology”
  21. Universal Coverage Means Less Care and More Money
  22. Lessons From the 100 Nation Ransomware Attack
  23. The Mysterious Case of the HHS Secretary, the Reporter and the Pre-Existing Condition
  24. New Checks and Balances For Big Pharma
  25. Design for Health Award Submission EXTENDED! Submit by Friday, May 19th at 11:59PM EST.
  26. Would the World End if We Eliminated the Deductible?
  27. Imagining a Doctor Shortage
  28. How Is This Medical Bill Possible?
  29. It’s Time to Truly Share the Chemo Decision With Cancer Patients
  30. Electronic Medical Records 2017: Science Ignored, Opportunity Lost
  31. Not Really Insurance: The Pre-Existing Condition Debate
  32. Jimmy Kimmel Left Out Some Important Stuff About Obamacare
  33. Dear President Trump, About That Health Care Law
  34. Could California Become a Model for the Single Payer Movement?
  35. Thanks to the AHCA We Could Now See Cervical Cancer Rates Increase
  36. A Health Plan CEO Daydreams
  37. Health Reform Must End the Harms of Prior Authorizations
  38. How America Dropped the Ball on Sports Concussions
  39. Building Boats and EHRS
  40. The Ketamine Papers: Science, Therapy & Transformation
  41. The Doctor Will Connect With You Now

April 2017

  1. Nature vs Nurture
  2. Would Repealing the ACA Violate International Law?
  3. Can Interactive Group Therapy Boost Productivity in Medicine?
  4. GuideWell Wants Your Opinion: Deadline Tomorrow!
  5. The Return of the Angry Granny State
  6. The Fairy Tale of a Non-Profit Hospital
  7. BTG buys Oncoverse–Amanda Goltz explains all
  8. The Sad Myth of the Direct to Consumer Startup
  9. Finding Care Can Be Easy; Check Out The RWJF Choosing Care Challenge Finalists
  10. If I Had More Time, I Would Have Written a Shorter Blog Post
  11. Why Science is Mistrusted
  12. Reform & Improve
  13. A Modest Health Care Economics Experiment to Fight Rising Costs
  14. Health 2.0 has something important to tell you
  15. Al Lewis Talks about Al Lewis
  16. Are Europeans Ready to Become Health Consumers?
  17. The Strange Making of the “Marketplace Stabilization Rule”
  18. Struggling to Get Customers, Revenue and Traction in the Digital Health Market?
  19. The 401W: A Wellness Program Even Al Lewis Could Love
  20. MACRA Is Broken. It Needs to Go Away Now.
  21. Measuring MACRA
  22. Yes, Mr. President. Health Care is Complicated. And Also Hard.
  23. Protection? Fairness? Hardly.
  24. Insurers: Getting To Know The New B In B2B2C
  25. This Doctor Says #BoycottUnitedAirlines
  26. Who’s to Blame For the Shortage of Doctors? Doctors and Politicians
  27. Evidence-Based Diagnosis and Faith-Based Solutions
  28. “Value-Pricing” of Drugs and Pharmaceutical Innovation
  29. When the Patient is a Racist
  30. Is Healthcare a Right? A Privilege? Something Entirely Different?
  31. You’ve Got Facility Fees!
  32. Hobson’s Wrong Answer
  33. Pulse Check: Value-based Care Models and the New Administration
  34. Do Asians Have Harder Heads? On Sports Concussions and the Need For a Fairer, Medical Research Funding Policy
  35. Key Mechanisms That Define Health City Cayman Islands’ Value Innovation
  36. The Secret Sauce of Successful Pilots
  37. National Coordinator 6.0: A Blueprint For Success
  38. Who Won When the AHCA Failed?
  39. Interview to Michael Seres, Patient Advocate and Founder of 11Health
  40. Solutions That Will Be Essential for the Future of Healthcare
  41. Calcium Scan and Subtractive Medicine
  42. Health Care: What Should a Populist Do Now?

March 2017

  1. The Child Sexual Abuse Conspiracy
  2. Trump’s Obamacare Debacle: Vanquished by a Ghost!
  3. Dr. Smith Goes to Washington
  4. Did Medical Darwinism Doom the GOP Health Plan?
  5. After the American Health Care Act
  6. Repealed and Misplaced
  7. Evidence-Based Health Reform
  8. Now What, Mr. President? Here’s What.
  9. They’re Taking Selfies in the Streets …
  10. How Not to Innovate (And the Stuff You Really Should Be Doing)
  11. Dr. Noseworthy and the AHCA
  12. Watch the Recorded Repeal & Replace: Impact on Health Tech Webinar
  13. In the Land of the Health Care Experts
  14. A Healthcare Reform Compromise That Just Might Work (Maybe)
  15. The Incredible Self-Destructing Healthcare Marketplace
  16. I Dub Thee “Three Pronged” Care
  17. The AHCA (Full Text) Updated 3/13
  18. Make Trumpcare the First Big Step toward a Free Market in Healthcare
  19. Replacing the ACA; Closing the Deal
  20. Register for Free Live Webinar Health 2.0 Is Hosting This Thursday
  21. Democrats Paid a Steep Price For Ignoring the CBO. Republicans Will Too.
  22. The Law of Diminishing Returns of Ethicism
  23. Personalized Cancer Services are Needed: GuideWell is Calling on You
  24. The Coming DRexit
  25. Hospitals Helping Hospitals Be Better Hospitals
  26. Join Health 2.0’s Free Webinar To Hear the Potential Impact on Health Tech from Repeal & Replace
  27. A Doctor’s Dilemma: A Case of Two Right Answers
  28. Ayasdi–Big Data changing hospital operations
  29. Trump Friend & Ally: “Donald, Build Universal Healthcare!”
  30. Insurance Is Not the Problem. It’s Also Not the Solution
  31. Value-Based Purchasing and “Free Lunch Syndrome”
  32. Bridget Duffy: Improving the patient experience
  33. CBO 24 GOP 0
  34. The Vanishing Hospital: ASCs Follow the Consumer
  35. David Delaney, SAP: Democratizing Data Science
  36. The American Health Care Act (AHCA): Why It’s Not Going Away Anytime Soon and What You Need to Know
  37. A few thoughts on the eHealth Hub SME Survey and EC2VC Investors Forum
  38. How Trump Can Kill the Cancer In Obamacare Without Congress
  39. A Dishonest Conversation on Healthcare
  40. The New FDA Commissioner
  41. Price Transparency and All Its Very Large Warts
  42. Healthcare Economics: Why This Stuff Doesn’t Actually Work The Way You Think It Does
  43. Continuous Coverage Clauses in Healthcare Reform: Are They Benign?
  44. Health Catalyst: Dale Sanders on what’s next for analytics & big data
  45. The Patient Expert: Healthcare’s Untapped Workforce
  46. The Rust Belt Is Burning: Republicans Lay Waste to their Base on Health Reform
  47. The House Republicans’ Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Obamacare Replacement Plan
  48. Healthcare Insurance: America’s Collective Action Nightmare
  49. Interview: Robert Armstrong, CEO, Appstem
  50. Hey, Machine Learning
  51. Can Community Health Organizations Pave the Way for Local Technology Adoption?
  52. In (Gasp) Defense of the Coronary Stent
  53. A Great Leap Forward (Or Backward) For the National Health IT Agenda?
  54. Imagine Ransomware, For Your Body
  55. New “kid” on specialty ACO block –Chuck Saunders, Integra Connect
  56. Yep, Health Care Is Complicated
  57. Kyruus “load balancing” health care — Julie Yoo Interview
  58. How to Blow Up the Health Insurance Market In One Easy Step
  59. Cirrus MD — Text Connecting Your Doctor
  60. Paying Doctors For Outcomes Makes Sense in Theory. So Why Doesn’t it Work in the Real World?

February 2017

  1. Costs of A Hospital Monopoly in One Underserved County
  2. What the IBM Watson – MD Anderson Split Means. And What It Doesn’t Mean.
  3. Drug Price Debate Could Stall, Unless Consumers Get Engaged
  4. Calling all NYC Startups! Digital Health Marketplace is back!
  5. A Better “Better Way”
  6. The RWJF Choosing Care Challenge Offers PokitDok & Vericred APIs
  7. Wellbeing: The Interdependencies of the Body, Mind & Spirit
  8. Non-Alternative Facts About the Healthcare System
  9. The Lifecycle Theory of Saving For Healthcare Needs
  10. Diversity in SI Swimsuit Issue is Great But Does it Cross the Line?
  11. How to Make HSAs Actually Work
  12. Is DRexit Next?
  13. The Policymaker’s Guide to Options For Replacing the Cadillac Tax
  14. Vulnerable Patients and Right to Try. Doing More Harm Than Good
  15. A Million Jobs in Healthcare’s Future
  16. The Definitive Guide to Repealing & Replacing Obamacare
  17. Population Health Isn’t Working Out Quite the Way They Said It Would. What’s Going On?
  18. Dashboards Are For 737 Pilots, Not Physicians.
  19. A Reset For Physicians?
  20. The Public Health Enemy at the Gate
  21. Don’t Get Too Distracted By the Smoke Coming Out of Washington
  22. A Measure of Insight on MACRA
  23. Who Cares? Hospital Talk. Transforming Hospital Operations
  24. Trump Issues Obamacare Proposed Rule to “Increase Patients Health Insurance Choices For 2018”
  25. Teaching Health Delivery Science in the Digital Age
  26. Travel Ban Is Revealing—but Does Not Threaten American Medicine
  27. Say You’re Sorry, Donald
  28. Should We Blame Technology For the Growth In Healthcare Spending?
  29. Mobile Apps Are Reflecting the Changing Role of the Patient in the Healthcare Ecosystem
  30. An Open Letter to Kaiser Permanente Northern California
  31. ACA Enrollment Final Numbers for 2017—A Cautionary Tale for Trump and Republicans
  32. Gaming the System
  33. A Purpose-Driven App Tests Work-Life Balance
  34. Don’t Believe the Media Narrative. Repeal + Replace Is On Track For 2017
  35. The Sahara Model of Value-Pricing
  36. This Wellness Data Isn’t Looking Too Healthy. If It’s Right, Wellness May Actually Be Dead
  37. What the Super Bowl Can Teach Us About Health Care Data
  38. Hell Is A Very Small Place: Voices From Solitary Confinement
  39. If You Can’t Cure Me, Get Back to Living
  40. Why Surgical Volumes Should Be Public
  41. Repealing the Right to Redistribute ‘Other Peoples’ Money’
  42. The Inconvenient Truth about the Military and Veterans Health Systems? They’re Working Just Fine.
  43. Dinosaur-Driven Health Reform
  44. The Mysterious Case of Ohio’s Disappearing Price Transparency Law
  45. What Experts in Law and Medicine Have to Say About the Cost of Drugs
  46. Headlines We Won’t See In 2017

January 2017

  1. What Is This Strange & Confusing Healthcare Language We Have Invented?
  2. WaPo Leaked Tape of GOP Repeal & Replace Talks is Troubling. But Also Weirdly Reassuring …
  3. Data For Improving Healthcare vs Data For Exasperating Healthcare Workers
  4. Simulated ACOs vs Real-World ACOs
  5. Should Doctors Think?
  6. Headlines We Expect To See In 2017
  7. Digital Health, Health Reform & the Underserved – Where Will 2017 Lead?
  8. And the Democrats Wonder Why They Lost the Election?
  9. What Will Trump Do On Vaccines? The Jury Is Still Out.
  10. What 32 Million Tweets Tell Us About Health & the Twitterverse
  11. It’s Up to Clinicians, Not the Government or Payers, to Control Health Care Costs
  12. ACA Repeal and the Ethics of Belief
  13. Mylan Fiasco May Be “The Shot Heard Round the World”
  14. Is Trump Headed Into His Own “If You Like Your Health Plan You Can Keep It” Quagmire??
  15. Resist the Evil Fiction That Is Health Insurance
  16. Interview with Mark Pauly: Part 2
  17. Trump Executive Order: Minimizing the Economic Burden of the Affordable Care Act Pending Repeal
  18. Interview with Mark Pauly: Part 1
  19. Online Rankings For Hospital Executives?
  20. Bringing the “Art of the Deal” to Healthcare
  21. Key Takeaways From the Price Confirmation Hearing
  22. Not Normal Chaos
  23. The Tragedy of Obamacare
  24. Pig in a Poke Health Reform
  25. Esther Dyson & Rick Brush Interview at Health 2.0
  26. The Arc of Justice in Healthcare
  27. Why Consumers Are the New Patients
  28. The Unlovable Political Logic of Health Reform
  29. A Bird’s Eye View from the Penalty Box
  30. Should Cleveland Clinic’s Anti-Vax Physician Lose His Medical License?
  31. JP Morgan Week: Lessons For Investors From the Theranos Story
  32. A Brief History of Why the Republicans Have No Replacement For Obamacare
  33. Improving MACRA’s Chances of Success
  34. America’s Health and The 2016 Election: An Unexpected Connection
  35. Star Wars Is Really About Protecting Patient Data (Yes It Is)
  36. It Begins
  37. Announcing 1st And Future, A Startup Competition from the NFL and the Texas Medical Center
  38. Elation’s Kyna Fong on a new type of EMR company
  39. Here’s What Won’t Happen in 2017 (And What Will)

2016 519

December 2016

  1. Millennials: The Greater Generation?
  2. Internet Self-Diagnosis: Mapping the Information Seeking Process
  3. The Art of the Deal: Coming to Rx Prices Soon
  4. Dithering: How MedPAC Perpetuates Failed Managed care programs
  5. National Health Expenditures Continue to Accelerate in 2015. What Does That Mean?
  6. The Perils of Precision Medicine
  7. Do Women Make Better Doctors Than Men? Part II
  8. Knowing What Not to Do
  9. Interview–Nelli Lähteenmäki, CEO You-App
  10. Homme Fatale
  11. Do Women Make Better Doctors Than Men?
  12. Why the 21st Century Cures Act Is Great News For Healthcare IT
  13. The Role of Machine Learning in Making EHRs Worth It
  14. Jonathan Bush Interview at Health 2.0
  15. Why Privacy Must Die
  16. Shopping Trends and Physicians
  17. Whether They Like It Or Not, The GOP Must Repair Obamacare
  18. Making the Physician-Patient Relationship Great Again
  19. Harnessing Data and Analytics to Transform the Healthcare Industry
  20. Unpacking the 21st Century Cures Act
  21. MedPAC: Medicare Advantage and ACOs Can’t Cut Costs And We’ll Never Know Why
  22. Does Life Expectancy Matter?
  23. The HIT Emperor Has Never Had Any Clothes
  24. Lead Time Bias and Court Rooms
  25. Could Price Be Right?
  26. The Case For a Medicare Buy In
  27. A Different Kind of Meaningful Use Penalty
  28. Moonshots, Opioids and Incentives
  29. Does It Matter If You Get Along With Your Doctor?
  30. Why the Affordable Part Didn’t Work
  31. Letter from Washington: Don’t Jump … Yet
  32. A Policy Agenda to Address New Unintended Adverse Consequences of EHRs
  33. Ian Morrison Interview at Health 2.0
  34. Medicaid, Meet Indiana
  35. Keeping Medicare’s Promise
  36. Trump State of the Union
  37. Something Not So Terrific
  38. The Price Is Basically Right

November 2016

  1. Science in the Age of Trump
  2. What Does the Recent Election Mean For Predictive Analytics In Healthcare?
  3. One Regulation Could Eliminate a Dozen Others
  4. Why Trump Won? A Brief Tutorial for Harvard Medical Students
  5. The Uncertainty Bomb
  6. How Doctors Can Help Win the Next Election
  7. Two Nations Separated by 5.3 mm
  8. American Healthcare Rackets: Monopolies, Oligopolies, Cartels and Kindred Plunderbunds
  9. Will Trumpcare Repeal & Replace Obamacare?
  10. Congress Shouldn’t Pass FDA Reform Bills Without Addressing Patient Safety and Drug Prices
  11. Want to help Technologies for Healthy Communities?
  12. Rethinking Outcomes Improvement and Data Governance
  13. Randomized Trialomania
  14. Software as a Drug
  15. Making Cancer Care Great Again
  16. Why Trump’s Health Care Plan Will Fail
  17. Trumpcare Beta: mHealth, MACRA and ACOs
  18. CareCloud raises $31.5m–Interview with CEO Ken Comee
  19. The Age of Trumpian Uncertainty
  20. Healthcare’s sky isn’t falling; President-elect Trump’s path forward
  21. Dear Mr. President-Elect, about that Ryan Plan Thing
  22. It Isn’t News That Trump Wants to Keep Pre-Existing Condition Reforms
  23. A Vote For Trumpcare
  24. So what does Trump mean for new health tech?
  25. Deciding the Future of the Veterans Health Administration
  26. Repealing and Replacing the ACA: A Whole New Ball Game. Same Problems Though.
  27. Dancing on the Grave of Obamacare: Questions
  28. An Early Prognosis: What Will Become of Healthcare IT in the Age of Trump?
  29. Post-Election Analysis: Making Healthcare “Great Again”
  30. No, I Didn’t Expect That Either. What’s Next?
  31. Death and Readmissions
  32. Prescription For Patient Safety With Health IT: More Time With the Patient, and Less Distraction
  33. Trump and the “Public Option”
  34. An Ad Page In the NEJM and the Future of Cancer Care
  35. Dear (Quite Possibly) President Trump
  36. How the “Public Option” Became Just Another Fuzzy Buzzword
  37. A Shout Out to Our Corporate Supporters
  38. The MACRA FAQ
  39. Disrupting Deductibles: An Innovative Approach to HDHPs
  40. Medicare Advantage – the Cup that Spilleth Over
  41. The Perversion of Fiscal Federalism: Daniel L. Hatcher’s, “The Poverty Industry: The Exploitation of America’s Most Vulnerable Citizens”

October 2016

  1. A New Kind of Payment Mechanism Targeting Social Determinants of Health?
  2. Et Tu, Dr. Noseworthy?
  3. MACRA and the New Quality Payment Program: Most Frequently Asked Questions
  4. Premium Hikes in the Exchanges: Not Good News, But Not the End of Obamacare Either
  5. Precision Primary Prevention
  6. Huge ACA Rate Hikes in 100 Words or Less
  7. Artificial Patients need Artificial Intelligence; The Sick and Worried Amongst Us Deserve Better
  8. Michelle Longmire, CEO Medable
  9. Atul Gawande, ACOs, and the Myth of the Mayo Clinic’s Low Costs
  10. Will Clinton Take Another Look at Value-based Healthcare?
  11. Making Accountable Care Organizations Great Again
  12. Who Cares? Lots of People Do, and This New Podcast Celebrates Them
  13. MACRA Needs to Use Evidence-Based Interventions
  14. MACRA: We Can’t Expect the Feds To Be The Key Lever of Change
  15. The Final Rule
  16. The Privacy Dilemma
  17. The Trust Gap in Healthcare: Findings from the 2016 Healthcare Trust Index
  18. The Blockchained Health Record
  19. Re-Decentralization of Medicine: The HIE of One
  20. The Fine Print of MACRA’s Final Rule: Good for Patients?
  21. Don’t Surrender
  22. Is the ACA Merely a Step Towards Single-Payer “Medicare-for-All?”
  23. A Letter from CMS to Clinicians in the Quality Payment Program: We Heard You and Will Continue Listening
  24. The ACA: We Got Quantity but What About Quality?
  25. Open Enrollment 2016… Can the Exchanges Be Saved? And Other Trending Questions
  26. Peter Orszag’s Obsession with Overuse
  27. The Impatient Patient Advocates
  28. I’m an Ex-Health Plan CEO. I Used to be a VA Critic. Then I Became a Patient.
  29. American Medicine’s Toxic Workplace
  30. Report: Pet Care Is As Dysfunctional As Human Health Care
  31. Did PSA Testing Save Ben Stiller’s Life?
  32. Make the Technology Disappear
  33. Underuse is Rampant, But Overuse is All We Talk About
  34. Building Better Metrics: Patient-Driven Metrics
  35. There’s a Story Behind the “Craziest Thing in the World”
  36. ColoradoCare by the Numbers
  37. Holier Than Thou Doctors
  38. Burning Out on Employee Burnout
  39. Is the FDA Sleeping With the Enemy?
  40. ACO Performance Year Three: What Happened and What Does It Mean?

September 2016

  1. The Letter of Recommendation: A Two Way Legal Instrument
  2. Fail to Scale: Why Great Ideas In Healthcare Don’t Thrive Everywhere
  3. Advancing Health IT and Preventing Data Blocking through Model Contract Language
  4. Building Better Metrics: Focus on Patient Empowerment
  5. Interview with Rasu Shrestha, CIO at UPMC
  6. The Rise and Decline of the Dartmouth Atlas
  7. Practicing Physicians and Healthcare Reform: Population Health vs. Compensation Wealth
  8. A chat with Ian Morrison
  9. For Healthcare Cybersecurity the Whole is Weaker Than the Sum of the Parts
  10. Rallying Cry: Cloud and Data First For Pharma
  11. A Fail For Activity Trackers: The I Told You So’s vs Need More Datas
  12. So, Do Transparency Tools Actually Work?
  13. The Nordics at Health 2.0
  14. Statin Wars: Less-is-More versus Unlimited Medicine
  15. The Rest of the Story About the Economic Good News
  16. Accessing & Using APIs from Major EMR Vendors–Some Data at Last!
  17. Closer to a crisis
  18. Improving Diversity in Health Technology
  19. The Levers We Have at Our Disposal to Reduce Spending on High Cost Claimants
  20. The Politics of Hillary’s Pneumonia
  21. Launch! at Health 2.0
  22. Jess Jacobs, POTS & her bio
  23. Cybersecurity Check In
  24. An Update on Price / Cost Transparency + A Promising New Service
  25. The Health 2.0 10 Year Global Retrospective Awards
  26. A Hole in the Heart, Part II
  27. Plans For the Quality Payment Program in 2017: Pick Your Track
  28. Health 2.0–Expediting The Health Technology Buying Process
  29. The Top Five Recommendations For Improving the Patient Experience
  30. A Hole In the Heart, Part I
  31. On the Wondrous U.S. Market For Prescription Drugs
  32. I Wish My Doctor Knew …
  33. EpiPenEconomics
  34. IoT: A Transformative Ecosystem or a Race to the Bottom?
  35. Obama Channeled Orszag, Orszag Channeled the Dartmouth Institute
  36. AETNA, Poor People and Stuff
  37. Competing for the Best New Ideas in Depression Care

August 2016

  1. ACO Winners and Losers: A Quick Take
  2. What’s Wrong With Medicine? You Decide.
  3. A Warning Label For Healthcare E-mail?
  4. Hold on. Ready For It? EpiPen May Actually Still Be Too Cheap!!!
  5. EpiPen Shock
  6. The Self-Care Rx
  7. Open Letter to President Obama About His JAMA Paper
  8. My Ideal EHR
  9. Self-Driving Health
  10. Aetna’s Obamacare Surprise
  11. More Than a Lollipop: Helping Kids Get Through the Hospital Experience
  12. The Exchanges Part II
  13. The Iora Health Fellowship: A Call For Applicants
  14. Value-Based Government (GACRA)
  15. The American Medical Association Takes a Step In the Right Direction
  16. Capping Co-Pays Doesn’t Lower Drug Costs
  17. Patients Without Borders
  18. The American Medical Association Goes Wobbly on Physician-Assisted Suicide
  19. Community Health Centers Are Essential to a Safety Net
  20. European and American Efforts to Tackle AMR: Great Minds Think Alike (Almost Always)
  21. Building Better Metrics: Invest in “Good” Primary Care and Get What You Pay For
  22. Welcome to My World: Perpetual Alarm Fatigue
  23. On the Worst Healthcare Experience of My Life
  24. Advice to the New National Coordinator
  25. Augmented Reality Is Coming To a Patient Near You
  26. Defund “Medical Homes”, Fund Primary Care
  27. Why Customer-Centricity Doesn’t Matter As Much As You Think It Does
  28. Welcome to My World: Med Wreck
  29. How to Build Better Metrics: Focus on Physician Outcomes
  30. Risk Adjustment Gone Wrong
  31. Dear Bernie
  32. Interview with Aptus Health at HIMSS
  33. Seymour Papert & the Power of (Patient) Engagement
  34. Fighting Zika With Network Medicine
  35. Are CMS’s “Medical Homes” Underfunded or Unfocused?
  36. CMS Launches CPC + Multipayer Regions: Applications Process Opens to Practices
  37. Matthew Holt Interviews Health Catalyst CEO, Dan Burton
  38. When the American Medical Association Cheered Hillary
  39. Matthew Holt Interviews Noah Lang at Health 2.0
  40. How EHRs Can Help Win the War on Prescription Drug Abuse
  41. Podcast: Why Should Doctors Think Like Engineers?
  42. Absolution
  43. Matthew Holt Interviews Avizia CMO, Alan Pitt
  44. Cyberwar, What Is It Good For?

July 2016

  1. The Spectacular Incompetence of 3rd Party Payers
  2. CMS’s Latest Report Is Bad News For Medical Homes
  3. When Life Gives you MACRA…
  4. The New API Economy (Now With Interoperability!!!)
  5. Let’s Fix Medicare Before We Expand It, Mrs. Clinton, But Then….!
  6. Socializing Determinants of Health
  7. Rural America: A Primer for Washington Officials, Columnists and Dartmouth Economists
  8. Six Keys to Improving Progression of Quality Care in Hospitals
  9. A Novel Proposal: Let’s Trust Our Doctors
  10. Dear Mrs. Clinton, Is the Public Option Really an Option?
  11. A Care Coordination Innovation Intervention
  12. The Doctors Club
  13. Pokemon Go: A Look into the Future of Health and Wellness Apps
  14. Hope, Statistics and the Overtreatment of Cancer
  15. The Illness of Work Incapacity
  16. Oh, Those Evil Law Suits!
  17. Proposed Drug and Device Laws Should Be Pushed to 2017
  18. From Takeoff to Touchdown, It’s About Engaging the Patient
  19. Risk-Factor Based-Medicine and Its Discontents
  20. So Much Talk, So Little Walk on Quality
  21. Dear Mr. Slavitt, Please Come Visit My Office
  22. Don’t Let Zika Stop the Olympics
  23. Focusing on Primary Care for Better Health
  24. Changing Prices: Trends overall, and in Texas, from year to year
  25. An Alternative Proposal For Certification
  26. FHIR Use Cases: Population Health and Value-Based Care
  27. MACRA Comment: Building a Culture of Health Includes Payment Change
  28. An EHR-Driven Checklist Manifesto
  29. MACRA Comment: CMS + MIPS/APM = Death of the Private Practice Physician
  30. The Media, Mixed Messages and Statins
  31. How to End MACRA, Meaningful Use and ONC Certified EHRs Programs/Mandates
  32. Feed Me, Media Guy

June 2016

  1. The Physician’s Case For Trump
  2. Can Apple Teach Silicon Valley to Think Different About Healthcare?
  3. The Patient and the Snake Oil Salesman
  4. Medicare’s Long-Term Fiscal Peril Deserves More Attention
  5. Retraction and the Rise of the Truth Jihadis
  6. Just-in-Time Healthcare Information
  7. The Orlando Shootings and Homophobia in Healthcare
  8. Time to Brexit the Health Care System?
  9. The Great Insurer Fee Disconnect
  10. Where’s the Value in MACRA?
  11. The Mischief and the Good In Precision Medicine
  12. Understanding the True Costs of ACOs and Medical Homes
  13. On THCB
  14. Will Federal Court Back Rules Treating Health Insurance as a Utility, Not a Luxury?
  15. Time to Put a Stop to Workplace Bullying
  16. Does Arnold Schwarzenegger Deserve Better Care Than Our Veterans Do?
  17. The Patient Data Positioning System – A GPS for Patient Data
  18. The Black List Part II (Features Which Should Be In Every EHR, But For Some Reason Aren’t)
  19. VA and CMS are Leading From Behind
  20. An Epidemic of Septicemia?
  21. In Silico Medicine
  22. All Risk is Local
  23. The Team Sport of Diagnosis: A Culture Shift Can Reduce Missed Diagnoses
  24. Confession of a Liberal
  25. Confusion over HIPAA Causes Grief in Orlando
  26. Assessing the Validity of MACRA’s Risk Adjustment Methods
  27. FUD Part II: The Return of Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt
  28. A Bill You Can Understand: One Page, One Line, One Price
  29. The Opioid Crisis: Nociception, Pain and Suffering
  30. The Black List: Features Which Should Be In Most EMRs/EHRs (But For Some Reason Aren’t)
  31. Men, Women and Health Care Pricing Theory: Speaking Different Languages
  32. The Cab Ride
  33. The Five Year Plan
  34. Consumer Groups Weigh in on EHRs Under MACRA
  35. Fame and Fentanyl
  36. 10K Steps + Fitbit
  37. Sloppy Risk Adjustment and Attribution Guarantee MACRA Won’t Work
  38. About Hastert’s “Known Acts:” The Indifference Is As Disturbing as the Crime
  39. Tech VC Answers ‘Will Computers Replace Doctors’ – I Mean VCs
  40. What’s the Score?
  41. Let’s Be Clear About Transparency
  42. Making Transparency Work: Why We Need New Efforts to Make Data Usable

May 2016

  1. Fast Medicine
  2. Getting Better Outcomes From Outcomes-Based Healthcare
  3. America’s New Drug War
  4. How Radiologists Think
  5. Grading Hospital Report Cards (Again)
  6. E-mail Liberacion!
  7. A Reality Check on Workplace Wellness
  8. The Domino Effect of House v. Burwell
  9. Seven Principles For Better Information Technology
  10. Annals of Decision-Making
  11. Post-Palooza News: RWJF Challenge Update
  12. How Big Is Too Big?
  13. Beyond CQI: How Patient-Centered Care and Efficiency Go Hand-in-Hand
  14. The Positive Impact of New Wage Protections on Home Health Agency Bottom Lines
  15. An Independent Medical Review Panel for the Candidates
  16. The Second to Last Mile
  17. Why Medicine?
  18. The Quality of Virtual Visits
  19. Slavitt’s “Data Paradox”
  20. Playing Doctor
  21. Rethinking MACRA Part II
  22. Independent Decision Support at the Point-of-Care for Both Patients and Physicians
  23. A Free Market Repudiation of Evidence-Based Medicine
  24. Hillary’s Pivot Left on Healthcare
  25. Datapalooza: MACRA, EHR Reform and Working with Doctors – Not Against Them
  26. Making Sense of MACRA
  27. The Rise of the Chief Cognitive Officer
  28. The Tangled Hospital-Physician Relationship
  29. A Hayekian Defense of Evidence-Based Medicine
  30. More Than Adequate
  31. A Comprehensive Strategy For Primary Care Payment Reform in Medicine
  32. Actually, Medical Errors are the Leading Cause of Death
  33. Who Owns What Happens Next?
  34. An Obamacare November Surprise?
  35. Making Sense of MACRA
  36. Looking Back From 2019: Why the Republicans Nationalized Healthcare
  37. How to Save American Football
  38. Misunderestimating the AMA
  39. “Medical homes” aren’t cutting Medicare costs
  40. A Deep Dive on the MACRA NPRM
  41. Blog Notes
  42. Protecting the Health of Americans by Improving the Use of Antibiotics
  43. Fact Checking the Health Reform Debate
  44. ACO 552: The Advanced Class
  45. ACO 101: Koka Completely Misses The Mark on Medicare ACOs
  46. ACO 101: Koka Completely Misses The Mark on Medicare ACOs
  47. Measuring Hillary
  48. The Angry Physician
  49. You Won’t Believe What Medicare Just Did on Patient Engagement!

April 2016

  1. Engaging Responsibly In the Health Care Debate
  2. Replacing Meaningful Use, Advancing Care Information
  3. The World in 2016: MACRA, a New Era For Meaningful Use and (Yet More) Political Change to come
  4. The ACO Delusion
  5. A Spoonful of Inequality Helps the Medicine go Down
  6. Confessions of a Health Plan CEO
  7. Your Drugs Are About to Get More Expensive
  8. The Mess That is MACRA
  9. Is Pornography Creating a Public Health Crisis?
  10. Making Medicine Great Again
  11. Don Quixote and the Health Professional’s Endless Quest
  12. Preparing Your Organization for MACRA 1.0
  13. Will New Funding Improve Alzheimer’s Dementia Outcomes?
  14. Why I Left My Pharma-Sponsored Academic Research Gig
  15. The Joint Commission Pain Standards: Five Misconceptions
  16. Beyond the Valley of Hype and the Plateau of Despair
  17. How a Physician Can Work With a Not Yet Approved Drug Through Compassionate Use
  18. Your Personal Healthcare System in the Year 2030
  19. The Pharma = Evil Narrative
  20. Check Your 2015 Open Payments Data
  21. Stephen Curry’s Health Care Plan
  22. Design Encompasses the Whole of Health Care at HxRefactored Conference
  23. Climate Change and the Migration of Infectious Disease
  24. What Is Patient-Centered Care? What Isn’t Patient-Centered Care?
  25. Eric Dishman, Intel & Randy Swanson, Care Innovations
  26. All Providers Are Not Equal
  27. Are Your Health Cost Savings an Illusion?
  28. Matthew talks, Fred listens
  29. The C Word
  30. Hacking Doctors
  31. Keep Calm and Save the NHS
  32. Forget Patient-Facing Apps. Yes, You Read That Correctly.
  33. What to do About Health Care Data Sharing
  34. Big Data? Read the Fine Print
  35. Trump’s Healthcare Plan: Right Diagnosis, Wrong Prescription
  36. The Prescription for High Drug Costs? Transparency for Starters
  37. How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love For-Profit Medicine
  38. The Emergence of High-Performance Health Care
  39. Financing Physicians: A Modest Proposal
  40. A Guide to Top Medical Journals: A Primer For Journalists
  41. What Might We Expect in the MACRA Proposed Rule?
  42. No Mandate Required
  43. Meaningful Use: RIP
  44. Re-imagining the Doctor’s Appointment
  45. The Patient-Centered Doctor
  46. God and Statins
  47. Research Bites Dog
  48. Telemedicine: Competition and Coopitition
  49. The Thing About the IoT
  50. Unicornius Gorus: There’s More to the Theranos and Zenefits Story

March 2016

  1. Repealed or Repaired?
  2. The Case for Case-Based Reasoning
  3. Torture the Data Until it Confesses
  4. The Healthcare Data Sharing Conundrum
  5. Milestones or Millstones?
  6. Seven Pillars of Trumpcare
  7. Patient-Centered Service
  8. HillaryCare 2.0 – Back to the Future
  9. The Transparency Trap
  10. The Unaffordable Affordable Care Act Turns 6
  11. The Narrowing of the Network
  12. The ACA at 6 Years: Solid Progress but Cost Issues Remain
  13. ESCOs: The Value of Disease-Specific Accountable Care
  14. What Data Won’t Tell you About Caregiving
  15. Telehealth is Working in Texas. Here’s Why
  16. The Antidote to Physician Burnout: A Nine Step Program
  17. Health Insights from the Founder of Paypal
  18. Overoutrage and the Asymmetric Skepticism of Healthcare Journalists
  19. How the Health Co-Ops Can Meet Their Financial Obligations
  20. The NFL is Not Big Tobacco: Overdiagnosis and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE)
  21. More on Loneliness as a Major Health Risk Factor
  22. Unique Device Identifiers: Medicare Claims Should Include Implant IDs
  23. Interview: Steve Curd, CEO Wanda
  24. Precision Medicine’s First Test is Blue Button on FHIR
  25. What Healthcare Can Learn From Silicon Valley
  26. Congress Has a Little Drug Problem
  27. Rethinking How U.S. Health Care Policy Approaches the Mouth
  28. The End of Civilization and the Real Donald Trump
  29. The 5 Stages of EMR Acceptance (With Apologies to Kubler-Ross)
  30. Xerox–Tamara StClaire interview
  31. The Paradox of Evidence-based Medicine
  32. PCMH Fails Natural Experiment
  33. Philips — Interview with Carla Kriwet
  34. Retail Clinics Raise Medical Spending: So What?
  35. The ACO Information Vacuum
  36. Feeling the Bern on Universal Single-Player Healthcare
  37. Cancer and Moonshot Economics
  38. The Trump Healthcare Interview: Part 2
  39. A New Federal Agency to Oversee Patient Safety?
  40. In Defense of Small Data
  41. CMS Approval Another National Nod to the Power of Telehealth
  42. Optimistic Skepticism About the Future of Consumer Healthcare
  43. Empathy and Shame
  44. Why We Know so Little About ACOs: The Managed Care Culture at Work
  45. THCB Tech
  46. More on MACRA, Interoperability and the Post-Meaningful Use World
  47. Quality v. Quantity
  48. Liberty Mutual: A Blow to Health Care Transparency
  49. Mr.Trump’s Proposal for the Sale of Health Insurance Across State Lines
  50. Homo Ex Machina
  51. The Meme-ifcation of Health Care
  52. What Trump’s Plan to Negotiate With Pharma Should Tell Us
  53. Not Quite DOA: Why Reports of the Demise of the President’s Budget May be Exaggerated
  54. Omar Hussein, CEO Imprivata
  55. EMR Data show: The ACA has Improved Access to Care for Low-Income Patients
  56. Building Virtual Kaisers: Transcending Healthcare’s Tower of Babel
  57. Getting to the Patient Cloud and Guardian Angels

February 2016

  1. Congress Needs to do Something About Data Blocking Now
  2. Cancer and the Politics of Moonshots
  3. Readmissions, Observation, and Improving Hospital Care
  4. Why Healthcare Costs Rise Faster Than General Inflation
  5. Silicon Valley’s Healthcare Problem
  6. Ransomware, Interoperability, Power Outages, Natural Disasters, Oh My!
  7. Will Feeding Watson $3 Billion Worth Of Healthcare Payment Data Improve Its Decisions?
  8. Donald Trump’s Healthcare Problem
  9. How Not to Research ACOs
  10. Apple and the 3 Kinds of Privacy Policies
  11. A Reset For Workplace Wellness?
  12. A Better Pathway to Acute Care
  13. CMS Is the Reason We Have so Little Useful ACO Research
  14. Is Big Data a Big Deal…or Not?
  15. A New Data Sharing Architecture for Medicine
  16. Electronic Health Records: From Ebola to Zika, Fighting the Last War
  17. Why We Have so Little Useful Research on ACOs
  18. Why I Don’t Believe In Science
  19. Marijuana Know-Nothingism
  20. Unicornius Gorus – Theranos and Zenefits
  21. Dear Madam/Mister Future President
  22. The Trump Healthcare Interview
  23. How to Calculate a VOI or ROI (if any) on Wellness
  24. Accolade flying flag as patient advocates
  25. The Radiology Report
  26. What To Make of the Senate Finance Committee’s Chronic Care Policy Options
  27. Health 2.0 Unveils “10 Year Global Retrospective”
  28. Precision Medicine is Taking Too Long and Here’s Why
  29. Shining the Light on Cancer Surgery Volume
  30. Seth Sternberg talks about Honor
  31. It’s Time to Talk about Cancer Surgery Volume
  32. Give up Your Data to Cure Disease? Not so Fast!
  33. Aver: Analytics for Care Episodes –Nick Augustinos interview
  34. Zika and Correlation vs. Causation
  35. Can the Exchanges Be Saved?
  36. Interoperability Form and Function: Interview with Doug Fridsma
  37. Nominate a Speaker For TEDMED
  38. Biden’s Moon Shot and the 21st Century Cures Bill
  39. The Secrets of Cancer Survivors
  40. David Vivero, Amino– Yes, We Need Another Doctor Search Company!
  41. Physician Burnout is an Epidemic
  42. The Search for the Elusive Elixir of Life
  43. Gawande, Frankl, and Why “Less Is More” Is More of the Same
  44. Short-selling Private Practice
  45. Don’t like CB Insights’ numbers? Just wait…
  46. Should Your Employer Have the Right to Track Your Weight?
  47. Iowa Is Voting On Health Care Tonight

January 2016

  1. Love and Measurement
  2. There Is Nothing Free About the Health Care Free Market
  3. Guideline-Centered Care
  4. Employer Sponsored Insurance: Unfair and Unaffordable
  5. Enduring Effects of Trauma in Newtown and Beyond
  6. Data Socialism
  7. Why Are Physician Engagement Scores So Dismal?
  8. Data Parasites?
  9. The Patient-Centered Health Record
  10. Will the Pharmaceutical Industry Learn From Past Mistakes?
  11. The Unaffordable Care Act
  12. FHIR: The Last, Best Chance to Achieve Interoperability?
  13. Ann Marie O’Callaghan and Perjeta
  14. Should Companies Invest In a Chief Health Officer?
  15. EHR Incentive Programs: Where We Go From Here
  16. Is Health care Ripe for Disintermediation?
  17. Bernie May Have a Point …
  18. Risk Scoring and Value-based Payments Haven’t Worked: The Medicare Advantage Story
  19. Toyota-ism vs Taylor-ism
  20. Data Thinking In Health Care
  21. So, You’re a Next Generation ACO …
  22. Why Your Culture Does Not Matter To Me
  23. And the Stars Looked Very Different Today
  24. Meaningful Use Is Dead. Long Live Something Better!
  25. Health 2.0 WinterTech–Health Tech Investing at #JPM16
  26. The Case For Calling the Dietary Guidelines What They Really Are
  27. The Dismal Science Behind Financial Incentives For Docs
  28. What Do We Know About Medical Errors Associated With Electronic Medical Records?
  29. Posts on EHRs, Data and Patient Safety
  30. Treating Chest Pain With a Cup of Tea
  31. Help Us Build a Hospital In the Cloud
  32. Good Reads
  33. Would Patients Pay For This?
  34. The War on Death
  35. 2016 Obamacare Outlook
  36. Like Uber for Health Care With Sherpas?
  37. What Would a Health Care Mutual Look Like?
  38. Why I Left My Health Care Executive Role to Join a Startup
  39. Changes In Work Hours and Employer Insurance Not Borne Out
  40. False Positive Mammograms and Cancer Risk: An Epidemiological Whodunit
  41. Matthew’s Issues & Charities at end 2015, start 2016
  42. Think Again: Health Insurers Have No Reason To Reduce the Price of Health Care

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